Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis is an American poet and the author of Blue-Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark, and Forest Primeval, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is also the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the 2021 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for Callaloo.

Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vievee-francis

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